Memories tagged “Sports”

Adversaries, Old and New In 1964, I was a staff announcer at WKCR and was assigned to do the halftime newscast at the Columbia-Princeton basketball game. For some reason, I could not do the newscast from the WKCR studios in...

Columbia College 1965

Best Library Moment Sophomore year I was living with my ex-girlfriend and my best friend, Vince, in a 3-person suite in East Campus. It was close to mid-terms, and the tension in the suite was rising as exams got closer....

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1990

Best Sporting Event at Columbia Football–Cornell at Columbia–fall 1966. My roommate was dating a Barnard student whose younger sister was attending Cornell and came down to NYC for the game. I was fixed up with her younger sister, who turned...

School of Law 1968

Best Sports Event I Saw In the spring of my sophomore year, 1988, I asked the Office of Sports Information how to try out for the position of Lion mascot. The answer was “You got the job!” The lion suit...

Columbia College 1990

Best Sports Event Seen Actually, this was an event heard and not seen. The momentous occasion when Columbia College’s soccer team made it to the finals of the NCAA championships in my final year at CC. It was a game...

Columbia College 1986

Big Time Football I chose the Columbia Business School (in 1975) for my MBA program in part because it was a long way from the midwest, where I’d spent my life up till then. One of my friends in the...

Graduate School of Business 1977

Closing Broadway The Columbia football team was fighting a four-year losing streak. The joke was they should play Macalaster (a college in my home town, St. Paul, MN), the other (much smaller) college with the four-year losing streak. I missed...

Graduate School of Business 1998, Barnard College 1991

Columbia 20, Princeton 18 It is Homecoming Day, 1988. Columbia’s valiant eleven haven’t been victorious over Princeton in years… twenty-five since I was a freshman. Somehow, the year 1945 rings a bell. The Lions have tried all afternoon on a...

Columbia College 1968

Drew’s: The First-Year’s Watering Hole I was so sorry to learn that Drew’s, at the SW corner of 106th and Broadway, had become a food market some years back. After all, if it were not for the establishment’s completely uninterested...

Columbia College 1992

Envious Regrets I went through the college as a young 16 year old, still living at home in Washington Heights, focused on a pre-med education and adolescent socialization. I helped out on the Columbia Review, wrote humerous poems for the...

College of Physicians and Surgeons 1953, Columbia College 1949

Financial Aid: Thanks, `55 Without substantial financial aid, I would not have been able to attend college. About a third of my education was underwritten by a most generous scholarship sponsored by the Class of 1955. Whenever I meet a...

Columbia College 1965

Great Football Game My father and family went to every football game for years and years. A very good friend of Lou Little, my dad was swimming coach at Columbia. Dad never sat in his seats on the 50-yard line...

Columbia College 1948

Greatest Sports Moment The greatest sports moment that I witnessed on campus was last seasons Men’s Basketball victory over Princeton at the buzzer on 2/18/06. This came after beating Penn the night before and on the induction night for the...

Columbia College 1994

IT’S SNOWING I experienced snow “for the first time again” when, at my freshman dorm (John Jay), the whole floor went out to baptize my next door roommate (who was from India) with a good old fashioned snowball fight. We...

Columbia College 1989

Mr. Stade The guy was tall, lean and looked a little seedy. His walk seemed a cocky amble. His face took on aspects of pain, fatalism and bemusement. His hair seemed more a perverse steel brush with long bristles than...

Columbia College 1967

My Favorite Game That I Saw at Columbia In the late 1940s, Columbia played Army in football at Baker Field. Army had a formidable team and was expected to make quick work of Columbia. Army also had two teams, I...

Columbia College 1950

My Sports Story The best Columbia sports moment I ever saw was Lion football beating Princeton at the Tigers’ homecoming in 2003. It was the Lions’ first victory at Princeton since the Truman administration, I think. Last second, long shot...

Never Mess with a Football Player In my Sophomore year, I was assigned to Ferris Booth Hall. My next door neighbor was a member of the football team and quite large. Ferris Booth was still being renovated, and there were...

Columbia College 1962

NYC Cold In response to your call for anecdotes regarding weathering the NYC cold… As a native Texan, I was grossly unprepared for the NYC cold (circa 1983, when I began college there). This was particularly challenging for me as...

Columbia College 1987

Roar Lion Roar Beyond question, my favorite day/night at Columbia was Saturday January 18, 1964. I was a member of legendary coach Jack Rohan’s first recruiting class and after playing freshmen basketball I moved up to the varsity as a...

Columbia College 1965

Ski Jump on Low Steps After a once-in-a-decade snowstorm in the heart of New York, my teammates and I decided (brilliantly, I might add) to venture with our ski gear out to the Low library steps. After all, we weren’t...

Columbia College 2003

Southern Californian Not Ready for Real Cold My reaction to the first cold days I experienced in Morningside Heights were a little like Dorothy’s initial response to being in Oz: “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” In fact, I...

Columbia College 1962

Sports Glory It had to be a tie: first, watching Frustration’s End win the 1988 Intramural B-Ball championship, only because it made Brendan Murnan cry for joy and Rob Daniel (the fearless coach who put our rag-tag team together) the...

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1988

The Casuals The Casuals were a New Wave band c. 1980 who often performed in the crowded front room of that wacked-out fraternity on 114th St that kept having spectacular drug busts. Band members were all Columbia College undergraduates, though...

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1980

The Great Mudslide One late night during the spring of 1975, right in the middle of final exams, a substantial spring shower turned a section of the quad used for touch football and frisbee into a field of mud. Such...

Graduate School of Business 1978, Columbia College 1976

The Misfit There I was: a nice southern girl (so I thought) at a nice green-campused southern university with a nice southern roommate, and I was miserable. Academically, I was happy, but socially - well, the year was 1974, and...

School of Nursing 1978

Triple Play I was playing second place for the Lions. We were playing Yale at Coakley Field on a Friday afternoon in 1972. The Elis had first and second and no outs, and the batter (who was also the Yale...

Columbia College 1973

Who Owns New York? Every time the cadets scored they stood up across the field to taunt us, waving their clean and pressed white handkerchiefs. But at four in the afternoon we had the last wave. I was a freshman...

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1961, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1952, Columbia College 1951